Remember back in 2001, when President Clinton was leaving office and he issued (or sold) all those presidential pardons?

The news coverage never ended. So, deciding to make a political statement (and maybe a couple of bucks), I started issuing presidential pardons for the common man.

How much did Marc Rich pay for

his Presidential Pardon?

The folks who couldn't afford the million bucks for a pardon, like Marc Rich could order one from me for only $6.95!

These were personalized with their name and were beautifully printed on parchment. With the actual official pardon wording, a beautiful shot of the White House, a fake President Clinton signature, but a realistic presidential seal, they looked more authentic than the more expensive ones my competitor, President William Clinton was offering.

Gil offers pardons for the masses!

Everyone loved them! A lot of politicians, judges and military officers were buying them. Someone in a federal prison ordered one. Not sure if it got him out. I was having fun, selling them through a website and on eBay.

Then onto national TV and Radio!

Then it snowballed. It hit the wire services. FOX TV sent a limo out for me and put me on FOX News & FOX & Friends. (I just kept holding up a pardon for the camera and giving out my website URL every couple of minutes.)

Radio stations picked it up and a bunch of radio interviews kept me busy, Neal Bortz played it up on his talk radio program and put a link from his website to mine, which gave me more orders than anything else.

It pays to do something unusual!

The moral of this story is do something crazy and you'll get a million dollars worth of publicity (or maybe they'll just lock you up!)

Want to see these $6.95 Presidential Pardons? Maybe you can still get one for yourself!